JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir Beit Avot (Motzei Shabbat Parshat Shmot)
Saturday, January 14 at 10:00pm
Location: Ramat Tamir
Golda Meir Boulevard, Ramot Road
Tel: 02-5724444
http://www.ramat-tamir.co.il/

Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut Choir

Maury Epstein invited you to "Kabbalat Shabbat with the Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut Choir"
Kabbalat Shabbat with the Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut Choir
Friday, December 9 at 4:30pm
Location: Beit Knesset "Emet V'Emunah"
1 Narkis (in Nahlaot), Jerusalem, Israel

Ramzailech- Live at the Ozen Bar

Sunday, January 1, 2012
Time 8:30pm until 10:00pm

אנחנו מגיעים לאוזן בר כחלק מסיבוב הופעות בארץ ובעולם. הארדקור כלייזמר וגוד וייבס מובטחים יחד עם אורחים והמון המון שמחה. בואו לחגוג איתנו את השנה החדשה!

ההופעה תתחיל בזמן - 20:30!

כרטיסים: 40 ש"ח בקופות, 30 ש"ח דרך אתר האוזן בר - www.third-ear.com

מוזמנים להפיץ את הבשורה ולהצטרף למשפחה לשאר עדכונים: www.facebook.com/ramzailech

Rediscovering Joseph Achron

Monday, December 12, 2011 7:30pm until 9:30pm Location: Conservative Yeshiva (in the Old Beit Midrash), 8 Agron Street, Jerusalem, Israel Join us for pizza, music, and an exciting discussion on the important but forgotten musical legacy of Joseph Achron (1886-1943), one of the greatest composers of "Jewish Classical Music", and the efforts of a young organization to bring his works back to the stage.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Joseph Achron Society.

100 years ago, in December 1911, the brilliant young composer Joseph Achron wrote his first "Jewish" composition: "Hebrew Melody", Op. 33 for violin and piano. From that moment on, Achron became one of the most significant leaders of a movement to compose "Jewish Classical Music", a novel concept which had never before been developed. His work in this field – as a composer, philosopher, and cultural activist – shows a deep struggle with many of the same cultural and identity issues still faced by many Jews today. This, together with the strong artistic and historical significance of his musical work, offers a particularly important and meaningful, if unknown, counterpart to the well-known Jewish national literary and visual art traditions of Sholem Aleichem, Marc Chagall, and others.

Small- and large-group discussions will explore the question of "What makes music Jewish?", a question at the heart of Achron's legacy. We'll read excerpts from Achron's own writings on this subject and listen to samples of his music to spark ideas and further questions. In addition, Joseph Achron Society Founder and President Samuel Zerin will give a brief biographical overview of Achron's life, describe some of Achron's important ideas and achievements, and introduce the current work of the Joseph Achron Society in reviving Achron's forgotten legacy.

Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut

Event: Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut sings Kabbalos Shabbas - Modjitz!
Start Time: September 16, 2011 at 6:30pm
Location: Emet V'Emunah, 1 Narkis Street, Nachlaot Jerusalem

An at Fort in Tel Aviv

Sept 6th 1t 9:30PM
Shablul jazz Tel-Aviv

מועדון שבלול
האנגר 13 נמל תל-אביב 03-5461891
With David Friedman-vibes, Gilad Dobrecky-percussion.It's a rare opportunity to hear David play in Israel. The group will be playing original material by all three musicians. www.shabluljazz.com *special discount if you mention you are on Anat's mailing list!!!*

המועדון הקאמרי - ברוח יהודית

Wednesday, September 21 · 8:30pm - 10:00pm

המרכז למוסיקה ע"ש פליציה בלומנטל
ביאליק 26
תל אביב

קובי רובינשטיין - כינור
נועה שריד - כינור
גלעד הראל- קלרנית
גילי רדיאן- שדה - ויולה וכינור
הלל צרי - צ'לו
מיכל טל - פסנתר
נתנאל גרינשטיין - פסנתר

בתכנית: פרוקופייב - פתיחה על נושאים יהודיים לקלרנית, רביעיית מיתרים ופסנתר מיו - סויטה לכינור, קלרנית ופסנתר שולמית רן - דואו לקלרנית וצ'לו סטוצ'בסקי - מיני דואט לכינור וצ'לו
בלוך - בעל שם פאול בן - חיים - שירים ללא מלים ג'ון ויליאמס - סויטה לכינור ופסנתר "רשימת שינדלר"

Kontzert Hapiyyut Hagadol קונצרט הפיוט הגדול

קונצרט הפיוט הגדול Start Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 11:00pm
Location: היכל התרבות רח' המכבים 5 פתח תקווה
http://www.facebook.com/l/IAQCAZGkZ/www.petah-tikva.muni.il

ענקי הפיוט בעולם לראשונה על במה אחת וביצירות חדשות

משה חבושה - ישראל
דוד שירו - ארה"ב
ניהול מוסיקלי וניצוח: אריאל כהן
בליווי התזמורת המזרחית הישראלית ומקהלת החזנים "שירה חדשה"
כרטיסים במכירה מוקדמת 50 ש"ח באגף לתרבות תורנית 03-9052455, 073-7373866
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242344335805824#!/event.php?eid=242344335805824

Perry Robinson Trio including Assaf Hakimi, bass and Dani Benedikt, drums

Thursday, August 18 at 10:00pm - August 19 at 3:00am
Location The Zone - Ha Ezor
HaRechev 13
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
הרכב 13, 62595 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Hours Mon - Thurs: 9:00 pm - 4:00 am
About האזור - מי, מי במול, מה ומו
Description
לאחר שהייה ממושכת במעמקי המחתרת האורבנית התל אביבית, ולאחר התמודדות לא פשוטה עם רשויות מסוגים שונים בעקבות אותה מחתרתיות, ה"אזור" הועתק לרחוב הרכב 13, (כן כן, במקום בו עמד הברזילי הנודע) ושודרג בכמעט כל היבט אפשרי. רעש, השכנים, מקום, איוורור, חום ועשן אינם מהווים בעיה, ואפשר כעת להתרכז בייעודו האמיתי של המקום - מפגשים ומוסיקה. תקראו לזה סלון, ג'אמייה, אולם הופעות בוטיק, מתנ"ס של מוסיקאים או פשוט ב...ר - איך שזורם.

האזור כרגע בהרצה ופתוח מידי יום מהשעה 21.00 ועד אחרון המוסיקאים השיכורים למעט ימי שישי. לרגל אירוע משמח זה, הכניסה חופשית למעט בימי הופעות שם מחיר הכניסה משתנה בהתאם להרכב. דבר נוסף וחשוב, המקום ללא עישון, והמעשנים יהנו לגלות את חצר העישון המפנקת שעומדת לרשותם טענות, ביקורות , בקשות, שאלות, הזמנות יתקבלו בברכה בעמוד זה.
See More Email musicfromthezone@gmail.com
Phone 0544467240
Website http://haezor.com

Different Trains by Steve Reich Performances in Jerusalem

A masterpiece by America's greatest living composer Steve Reich The Fleshquartet, part of the Jerusalem Season of Culture Series

When was the last time that a musical performance really took you to a different place? Different Trains, Steve Reich's timeless Grammy Award- winning composition is making its way, as we write, to the Kishle (a former Ottomon prison) at the Tower of David Museum, where Stockholm's very own Jewish Theatre will perform a fascinating visual interpretation of his work. Join us for a riveting and unique audio-visual experience.

Now thru July 21 For ticket Information: http://www.towerofdavid.org.il/English/General/Tower_of_David-Museum_of_the_History_of_Jerusalem The performances will premier on June 30 and will continue to July 21, running from Monday-Thursday and Saturday. Please book in advance: Tower of David Museum *2884 Bimot *6226 Entrance to the show involves a walk in the castle moat the stairs. We recommend comfortable shoes and warm clothes. Regretfully, due to the show's unique location, it is not accessible for people with dissabilities. The location has 120 sits capacity, unmarked. No Late entry. Photography, recording and documentation strictly prohibited. Different Trains by Steve Reich at The Jewish Theatre Stockholm From http://www.jerusalemseason.com/event/different-trains-steve-reichm: "It's not surprising that the New York Times crowned American Steve Reich "one of the most important living composers." His startling talent and fearless experimentation have produced a rich, varied and formidable musical repertoire.

Now Reich’s Grammy Award winning Different Trains (produced by The Jewish Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden) is on its way to Jerusalem, or more specifically, to an ancient Turkish prison, the Kishle, at the Tower of David; where it will be performed by Swedish string quartet The Fleshquartet amidst billowing glass shapes in play with light and shifting transparencies. Different Trains is a piece in three movements written for a string quartet. The melodies in the work are interwoven with recorded, spoken voices.

The prison, which was specially renovated for the event and holds a maximum of 120 people, was built above newly discovered archaeological finds dating back to the Second Temple period that will be revealed to the public for the first time as part on this visual concert.

The Fleshquartet (photo: Jonas Lindstr?m) performs this piece in a glass installation by artist Ann Wahlstrom. Large glass drops hover in the darkened room. Specially designed lighting units bring out refractions of different colors in them. Some drops are lying on the floor, but none has broken. “We wanted the objects to feel as large as people, so that the audience would be physically affected by them as well,” says Wahlstrom.

“I want the performance to be like an elegy", says Pia Forsgren, director of The Jewish Theatre and responsible for the stage direction as well as the concept and set design of the concert. "I want the images to transmit beauty, too. The beautiful glass shapes could be souls or bodies. Beauty here is a way of making communication possible, of allowing us to take in the unspeakable and of giving us strength". The visual concert also featured a new composition written by The Fleshquartet – Tears Apart – as a reflection and commentary on Reich’s Different Trains.

Steve Reich, one of the pioneers of minimalism, has had a strong influence on contemporary art music; the slow, repetitive rhythms, the phasing into different tempi, the shifts in canon. Different Trains was Steve Reich’s first work in which he “extracted” music from speech; he later developed this concept in The Cave and City Life.

The Fleshquartet has been active for over 25 years and has collaborated with a great variety of artists, including Robyn, Moondog and Elvis Costello. They have been involved in various productions for the stage, for instance dance performances by the choreographer Mats Ek and the Cullberg Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Paris Opera. In 2007 they released the album Voices of Eden."

Artistic Director, Jerusalem Season of Culture: Itay Mautner

Yemen Blues

Track: At Vaani - Performed by the hot Israeli band Yemen Blues in 2011 at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California. The band was founded by Ravid Kahlani. Idan Raichel appointed Ravid to be a lead-singer in his successful Worldmusic project and Ravid toured the world performing with the “The Idan Raichel Project”.

This group features:
Ravid Kahalani - Music & Lyrics, Vocals, Percussion, Gimbri
Omer Avital - Musical Director, Oud, Bass, Vocals
Reut Regev - Trombone
Itamar Borochov - Trumpet
Hadar Noiberg - Flute
Rony Iwryn - Latin Percussion
Yohai Cohen - Middle East Percussion
Hilla Epstain - Cello
Galia Hai - Viola

GYPSY FEST 12

Saturday, May 28 · 9:00pm - 11:30pm Location
בית שמואל
World Union for Progressive Judaism
Jerusalem, Israel
Created By
סווינג דה ג'יטאן - הופעות, Pavel Levin, Oren Sagi
More Info
וידאו מהחזרה למופע- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQjLkHOA44

מופע בכורה פסטיבל האביב 2011
שבת, 28.05.11 21:00 בית שמואל - ירושלים - 02-6203463
http://www.beitshmuel.com/gypsy_fest.asp
משתתפים: שלישיית סווינג דה ג'יטאן: יעקב חוטר, אורי בן צבי- גיטרה צוענית, אורן שגיא- קונטרבס,

אמנים אורחים:
פבל לוין- כינור
אמיל קרויטר- אקורדיאון
גל דהן- קלרינט
אלון שגיא- גיטרה צוענית
שיר ­­­טפר- גיטרה צוענית
רקדנים: שירלי אושר, רן דוברובינסקי, מיכל תדמור, ערן טובי.
02-6203463
http://www.beitshmuel.com/gypsy_fest.asp
"Свинг де Житан" представляет новую программу в стиле "цыганский джаз" ("мануш").
В концерте принимают участие:
трио "Свинг де Житан" в составе-Яков Хотер,Ори Бен Цви-цыганские гитары,
Орен Саги-контрабас.
Гости программы:
Эмиль Кройтор-аккордеон
Павел Левин-скрипка
Алон Саги,Шир Тепер-гитары.
Танцоры:Ширли Ошер,Рон Добровинский,Яна Мейстельман,Эран Тоби.

Sirenot Ensemble do Hanoch Levin - "Assur Li Lashir" "I mustn't be singing"

♪♫ Ensemble Sirenot ♫♪ Time Thursday, February 17 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm Location Enav Centre - Tel Aviv Address Enav Cultural Centre, 71, Ibn Gvirol Phone No: 03-6045000,03-5217763 http://www.telavivcity.com/eng/map.asp?BusinessCode=1271 ♪♫ Ensemble Sirenot ♫♪
THE Vocal ensemble for young women who love to sing

Sirenot Ensemble is a chamber choir of young women bound by their love of music. Following its Israeli debut at the 2002 Abu Ghosh Music Festival, the group has performed in various venues in Israel and abroad (the Einav Center in Tel Aviv, the Mormon University, the Dormition Church in Jerusalem, the Kfar-Blum Music Festival, the Musica Sacra Festival in Germany, etc).

Email: sirenot.ensemble@gmail.com
Website: http://www.myspace.com/sirensensemble
Location: Ra'anana, Israel

HU Glee Club

It's wonderful seeing the great fun and joy from the students of the Hebrew University lipsinging

Lights of Fire

Lights of Fire
Start Time: Monday, November 8 at 8:00pm
Location: Heichal Shlomo
58 King George St
Jerusalem, Israel
KOL MEODECHA- Yiskah Sarah Petit, and Michal Yardeni
MORAN SABBAH, Rock/ Pop Singer/ Songwriter
DELIA SPIERS, Soul Singer/ Songwriter- Visiting from England
Doors open at 7:45.
Show Starts Promptly at 8:30
Tickets:
60NIS at the Door
50NIS in advance

FOR TICKET RESERVATIONS CONTACT
ANNIE ORENSTEIN: 054-632-3066
ROCHEL GRUNDMAN: 052-760-4911
VOTE FOR WHAT SONGS KOL MEODECHA SHOULD PLAY!
http://poll.fm/2cxk1

Yiddish Song Workshop at Felicja Blumental Music Centre Tel Aviv

The Yiddish Song Workshop‚ under the direction of Nekhama Lifshitz‚ is now admitting new singers. For details please contact Regina (0547621628) or Udi (0542026242). The workshop was founded 12 years ago by Nekhama Lifshitz‚ queen of Yiddish song. The aims of the workshop are to preserve Eastern European culture in general and Yiddish language and song in particular. Weekly workshop lessons are conducted privately by pianist and coach Regina Dricker‚ Nekhama’s right hand for many years. The lessons include voice training and study of Yiddish language and culture through the songs. Every year the workshop presents a number of song evenings or shows based upon different themes. Some of the performances‚ such as the evening dedicated to the Holocaust‚ are held throughout the country. This past year‚ which was dedicated to Yiddish poet Itsik Manger‚ we put on performances of ”The Megilah” [The Purimspiel] as well as a concert of Manger’s poetry and songs. For more information see: http://www.fbmc.co.il/

Yiddish concert in Tel Aviv

Yiddish Concert in Tel Aviv this Saturday, December 26, 2009
at 9:30pm.
Lenka Lichtenberg writes: "Hi! If you happen to be in Israel this week - you know where to find some fine new Yiddish music! Daniel Hoffman on violin, Kinneret Sagee on clarinet, Alexis Basque
on trumpet... good stuff!

Event: Yiddish concert in Tel Aviv this Saturday, December 26, 9:30pm
"Lenka Lichtenberg (voice, piano), Daniel Hoffman (violin), Kinneret Sagee
(clarinet), Alexis Basque (trumpet)."
Where: Cultural Center in Bet Ariela
Street: Shaul Hamelekh 25
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Habrera Hativeet at Zappa Herzliya

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 8:30pm - 11:50pm
Location: הרצליה, רח' מדינת היהודים 85
Description
הברירה הטבעית - חוגגים 30 שנה בזאפה הרצליה
ממשיכים את הסדרה והפעם אורחת : מירי מסיקה
Habrera Hativeet - Zappa Herzliya with special guest : Miri Mesika

Ayelet and Anat in Petach Tiqua

Ayelet and Anat (& surprise guests) in an intimate concert
part of "Presented by Ofer Portugali" Concert Series
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm
at Beit Shapira, 20 Herzl Street, Petach Tiqua
Phone: 03-905-2349

Original compositions and improvised music...
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Anat Fort
to hear tracks from Ayelet's new album - please visit:
http://www.ayeletrose.com

Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet

Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet will present a Concert
Sunday, April 12, 2009
9:30pm - 11:30pm
in Givatayim
תיאטרון גבעתיים
For info:
037325340

Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Center Blog

A new blog from the Hebrew University Jewish Music Research Centre gives great access with links to their online exhibits.
http://jewish-music-research.blogspot.com/

They have also got some nice exhibit images on Flickr, such as the Goldfaden Centennial Exhbit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26577116@N04/sets/72157605173229332/

New Music Blog from Israeli musicologist

Avior Byron has a blog about music, --some Jewish music in Israel, and general music in Israel. http://www.bymusic.org/index.php

Yellow Submarine in Talpiot, Jerusalem

Elie Massias will be at The Yellow Submarine TUESDAY JUNE 10TH 10PM In Talpiot Jerusalem More info at http://www.yellowsubmarine.org.il/

SHAINA ETTEL releases CD YA'ALE

New CD Release: Ya’ale is for sale through CDBaby - http://cdbaby.com/cd/shainaettel

With Ya’ale, her first solo recording, Shaina Ettel expresses her love of Torah and song. She brings a fresh approach to traditional Jewish music. She captures the heart and soul of Chabad niggunim. The songs are powerful . The CD comes with an 8 page insert with text in English and Hebrew. Shaina Ettel’s voice has an “ethereal” quality and has been compared to Judy Collins, or Sarah Brightman. This CD, consists of 13 selections with Shaina Ettel accompanied by both piano and full orchestration.

Shaina Ettel grew up in Saratoga Springs, New York. She is a professionally trained vocalist, and has performed in many concerts and shows. She made Aliyah 2½ years ago and presently lives in the picturesque Nachlaot neighborhood. She recently played the title role of Ruth the Gush Etzion’s RSY original musical production of Ruth and Naomi in the Fields of Bethlehem. Google Shaina Ettel or visit her website www.ShainaEttel.com

Women's Music Festival in Jerusalem

The Women's Music Festival, featuring various styles of music from western (American influenced) to middle-eastern music will be held Monday August 13, Rosh Chodesh Elul
Time: 8:30 PM
Place: Pargod, 2 Nissim Bachar St. corner of 94 Betzelel St. Jerusalem
Admission: 30 NIS

*Artists CDs will be sold
*Hot drinks provided

Clarinets in Safed this Summer

Looking for something great to do in Israel this summer? If you are a clarinetist you can find the perfect way to learn, have fun, and play great music. The 4th annual celebration of classical, jazz and klezmer music is once again being led in the old city of Safed by Giora Feidman. Experience instruction, master classes and performances from August 6-13 in Safed, Israel. For details, see the http://www.jmwc.org/pdf/KlezmerinSafedAugust07.pdfflyer (it's a pdf file so you need Adobe Acrobat to open).

FROM THE JAWS OF THE LION

FROM THE JAWS OF THE LION
On 25 March, 2007, in the advent of Yom HaShoah veHaG'vurah, the Felicia Blumenthal Music Center in Tel-Aviv will present a concert of art songs by Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson (1904-1992). Composed before his deportation, during his imprisonment in the concentration camps of Vichy France, and after his escape from his captors, the music is set to texts of Yiddish and Hebrew poets such as Sutzkewer, Reisen, Rosenfeld, Kipnis, Bialik, and Tschernchowsky. The songs give expression to manifold aspects of Jewish life in the Diaspora, the anxieties of survival, and joy in the renaissance of national Jewish life in the old new homeland. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson's creative process was nourished by the musical traditions of the former Austro-Hungary and the ancient modes of Jewish liturgy. Much of his music miraculously survived the ravages of WWII.
THE ARTISTS
Singers: Eva Ben-Zvi, Soprano, Joshua Breitzer, Tenor, Eliyahu Schleifer, Baritone, Mikhal Shiff Matter, Mezzo- Soprano. Pianists: Ahouvah Babayoff Kremer, Aya Schleifer.
Time: Sunday, 25 March 2007, 8:30 PM
Venue: The Felicia Blumenthal Music Center and Library
Bialik Street, 26
Tel-Aviv 61048
www.fbmc.co.il
The title of the program is derived from the phrase "Free us from the jaws of the lion," from the well know text by the 16th century poet Israel Najara . Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson set it to music while a prisoner in the Saint Cyprien Concentration Camp in Vichy France.

Marty Ehrlich Trio in Tel Aviv

The Marty Ehrlich Trio will play at the Performing Arts Center in Tel Aviv on January 19 at 10 p.m. Ehrlich, an American wind player is known for his eclectic jazz style. Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger will also appear as a guest of the Trio. Ehrlich's music is influenced not only by jazz, but by traditional Jewish music he heard as a kid in the US as well as American folk, pop, rock.

Ruth and Naomi Raise Your Spirits in Israel

www.raiseyourspirits.org On stage in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion, Israel is the season's newest SMASH HIT musical production - RUTH & NAOMI in the Fields of Bethlehem.

RUTH & NAOMI is the fourth production of the Efrat/Gush Etzion Raise Your Spirits Summer Stock Festival. It follows Andrew Lloyd Webber's "JOSEPH & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and two other original musicals, "ESTHER & The Secrets in The King's Court" and "NOAH! Ride the Wave!" "ESTHER," "NOAH!" and "RUTH & NAOMI" were all written by the team of Arlene Chertoff, Toby Klein Greenwald and Sharon Katz. The music for "RUTH & NAOMI" was composed by Mitch Clyman.

Raise Your Spirits has already performed for more than 20,000 women and raised more than 400,000 NIS for charity.

This year's production is totally sold out until the middle of November, but tickets are still available for November 20th and November 30th.

For ticket information, contact Tanya - tanyac@netmedia.net.il , 050-659-0265.

‘Ud & Piyyut 2006 The Legacy of Asher Mizrahi

This year’s Ud U’fiyyut (a co-production of the JMRC and the Confederation House in Jerusalem, in the framework of the International ‘Ud Festival Jerusalem, 2006) bears the title: Mi-qeddem U-miyyam: The Legacy of Asher Mizrahi

This concert is dedicated to the work of Asher Mizrahi – poet, musician, composer, artist and a teacher of Hebrew and music – who was born in Jerusalem in 1890, lived more than 40 years in Tunisia, and died in Jerusalem in 1967. Mizrahi wrote songs in Ladino, Hebrew Piyyutim of longing to Zion, as well as Arab-Tunisian songs, performed in the 1930' and 1940' by the most prominent musicians of his time, both Jews and Arabs.

The 'Ud Ufiyyut series, initiated by the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University, together with the Confederation House in Jerusalem as part of the International 'Us Festival, Jerusalem, is meant to bring closer the academia and the stage. This program portrays the work of a remarkable poet and musician, whose influence on the tradition of song and Piyyut, in Tunisia as in Jerusalem, cannot be overestimated.

Performers: Elad Gabai, qanun and musical direction; Moshe Luk, Hadas Pal-Yarden, vocals; David Menahem, vocals and nay; Yaniv Raba, ‘ud; Moshe Nuri, Percussions

The concert will take place in the Beit Shmuel, Jerusalem (6 Shama st.), on Sunday, November 12th, 2006, at 9pm.

MUSICA ANTIGUA DE EDUARDO PANIAGUA playing around Canada this Fall

MUSICA ANTIGUA DE EDUARDO PANIAGUA, a group dealing with Spanish medieval music, will perform soon in Canada. On October 26th at the Outaouais Festival de Musiques Sacrées with the program "Three Cultures (Jewish', Muslim' and Christiian' Spanish medieval music and song)". and on Oct. 28th at the Quebec Festival de Musiques Sacrées with the program "Sefarad in Al-Andalus (music and poetry from Hispano-Jewish Golden Age)".

On November 4th the group will play the "Three Cultures" program at Givatayim Theater (Tel-Aviv, Israel), and on Nov 6th at the Jerusalem International Oud Festival, with the program "The Andalusian Oud".

On Nov 22th the group travels to Germany where they will present "Sefarad in Al-Andalus" at the Cervantes Institute of Munich, as part of thehttp://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=99752 "Jüdische Kulturtage".
Contact Klezmer Sefardi. Jorge Rozemblum for details. rozemblum@yahoo.es

Performance for Women in Jerusalem

Sunday, October 8th @ 8:30pm
Performance for Women
5 Women, 1 Truth Opera Singer, Ballerina, Rock Star, Broadway Dancer, an Academic
Sharing their Stories about their Journeys to Torah
Benefit for the Bnos Miriam, Performing Arts Center for Women
@ Heichal Shlomo, 58 King George St. Jerusalem
Tix: 60-500 NIS
Call 02-622-3810 for info & to purchase tickets or see
www.bnosmiriam. org

FestiLadino in Rishon Letzion

This year's FestiLadino is being held on Hol Homed Sukkot, Oct 11, 2006 in Rishon Letzion, Israel. It promises to be a great lineup this year. Details can be seen on the Festival's website at: http://www.festiladino.org/index.php (Hebrew).

Strauss-Warschauer Duo in Tel Aviv

July 28-29, 2006 Tel Aviv, Israel
Leyvik House
Friday, July 28, morning: hands-on klezmer workshop
Saturday night July 29: Duo concert
www.leyvik.org.il The Leyvik House is the Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture and the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel.

Ensemble Meitar Summer Concerts

Amit Dolberg, pianist and the founder of the international ensemble for Israeli Contemporary Music and Jewish Clasical Music, Ensemble Meitar, announces some of their upcoming concerts.
22.6.2006 - 'White Night' Festival, Einav Center, Tel Aviv
1.7.2006 - Michelstadt, Germany
8.7.2006 - 'New Sounds', Israeli Composers League, Einav Center, Tel Aviv
For details, locations and times, see their websitehttp://www.meitar.net/eng_index.php

21st Zimriya World Assembly of Choirs in Israel

It's a ways away... in July 30-August 9, 2007, but your group may be interested in preparing now for the World Assembly of Choirs in Israel. to be held on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. Well known conductors will lead the workshops. The Zimriya, which was found in 1952, takes place every 3 years. There are choirs expected to attend from all over the world. You can express an interest in attending by September 15, 2006, or find out more information by contacting harzimco@netvision.net.il or writing to ZIMRIYA, 4, Aharonowitz Street, Tel Aviv 63 566, Israel or visit the website at www.zimriya.org.il. Individual singers age 18-35 interested in attending the international choir workshop and concert conducted by Michael Gohl (Switzerland) can contact michael.gohl@bluewin.ch

Devora Gila in Concert

Devora Gila presents a benefit concert for Midreshet B'erot Bat Ayin
Saturday night, April 8 at 8:15pm
Bat Ayin, Gush Etzion
Also featuring Guest Choreographer/Dancer Yocheved Polanski from Cli Institute of Dance, A Judaic Dance and Arts Program for Women and Girls (Ohio, USA)
Donation requested: 15 NIS

For more information about Midreshet B'erot Bat Ayin: http://www.berotbatayin.org/
For Jewish women's dance, contact: www.cliinstitute.com
For more about Devora Gila: www.cdbaby.com/cd/devoragila

Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson Concert on Israel Radio and in Jerusalem

A concert of the Yiddish and Hebrew art songs of Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson will be performed as part of the Etnachta series of classic music organized by Hayuta Dvir. It will be broadcast live on Kol HaMusica by the Israel Broadcasting Authority from the Henry Crown Symphony Hall in Jerusalem, 20 David Marcus St.(Located near the corner of Chopin, in the Rehavia District near the president's house) The concert and broadcast are scheduled for April 16, 2007 at 5:00 pm. The Etnacha Concert Series performances are free; call tel. 02/561-7167 for schedule information.

An additional concert of works Arie Abrahamson is scheduled for Motzeh Yom HaShoah, 25 April, 2006 at 8:00 pm at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem . 13 King David Street, Jerusalem, Israel 94101, (02) 620-3333, fax (02) 625-1478
Directions: http://www.huc.edu/libraries/jerusalem/map.html

Ruth Levin's new Yiddish music anthology

Ruth Levin has produced Word and Melody, an anthology of music to Yiddish poetry by her father, published by I.L. Peretz Publications. The anthology - with texts in Yiddish, English and Hebrew -- was launched in Tel Aviv this past weekend. Reminiscences and performances were provided by Alexei Blausov, Regina Drukker, Benny Hendel, Melech Ziv, Prof. Zvi Yavetz, Vera Levinski, Ella Levin, Lev Levin, Ruth Levin, Nechama Lifshitz, Arye Lish, Avishai Fish and Moti Shmit. The anthology contains 49 melodies to songs by 21 Yiddish poets as well photographs and drawings, piano arrangements by Hanan Winternitz, and a preface and epilogue written by Ruth Levin.

International Klezmer Celebration in Safed in July

Classical, Jazz and Klezmer clarinetists from all over the world will meet in Safed, Israel, during the week of July 2-9, 2006 for instruction and concerts. .Master classes will be offered in classical and jazz clarinet and in klezmer style for all instruments. Classes will take place at various sites around the city of Sared. Nightly performances from students with a Gala Final Concert, coinciding with the 19th Annual Safed Klezmer Festival July 9-11. The full program is at www.zhr.info. The artistic director of the week of classes is Giora Feidman. A pdf announcement can be read by clicking here

YIDDISH FEVER from YIDDISH EXPRESS

Mendy CAHAN & der YIDDISH EXPRESS
proudly presents
YIDDISH FEVER
new CD release
www.yiddishexpress.com

UPCOMING CONCERTS
THU February 23, 2006 8PM 40 NIS sold out
THU March 2, 2006 8PM 40 NIS
Beth Shalom Aleikhem
Rehov Berkowitz 4
Tel Aviv
Reservations 03/6956513

Women helping Women in Jerusalem

Women helping Women Fundraiser Dec 18 @ HINENI
BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR A FUN FILLED FEMALES-ONLY FEST!!
Please join me for a wonderful musical evening on Sunday December 18th.
With: Female Vocalist Niriya from Holland, Female Klezmer Group "Alei Assor" incl. Rachel Ferency - Piano, Sarah Leah Phares - clarinet, and Tirtza Chamberlain - violin
TIME: 19.30 - 22.00 (hall open at 19.00)
LOCATION: HINENI Jerusalem (for info www.hinenijerusalem.org)
ADDRESS: 2 Frumkin St. (accross Zion Square) Tel.: 02-624-3407
FEE: 15 NIS Donation suggestion
[Proceeds go to our Friend Rivka battling cancer and medical bills.]

Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala

A New CD was released by The Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem on the music of the Jewish women of Cochin, India. For centuries, the Jewish women of Cochin have been singing Jewish songs in the Malayalam language of Kerala, their ancient homeland on the tropical southwest coast of India. Here's the info to buy it and more descriptions below:
Title: Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala
Editor(s): Barbara C. Johnson
Publisher: The Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Place: Jerusalem
First Edition Year: 2004
Language: Malayalam
Tradition: Cochin
Country: India
Category: Folk Songs
Price: NIS 60 / $ 20
for more info....

The 42 songs on this CD represent just a fraction of their traditional repertoire as preserved in more than 300 written texts, though the melodies of most of the songs have been forgotten. Until recently, the performance of these songs was in danger of being lost altogether with the immigration of almost all the Cochin Jews to Israel, where younger generations no longer understand Malayalam. Fortunately, a collaborative project is now under way, with a team of international scholars, studying and translating the songs, and a group of Cochin women dedicated to reviving their performance. This CD is one result of this collaboration.
http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/GetDetails-green.asp?id=57&TableName=CDs_T

22nd Arad Hebrew Song Festival

This Week! Aug. 2-4.
Many of Israels best singers and choral groups will be performing at Arad and at Metzada. These include David Broza, Gidi Gov, Matti Caspi, Danny Sanderson, Yizhar Cohen, Shalom Chanoch, Avihu Medina, Margalit Tzanani, and the list goes on and on. Some of the free events include a midnight concert dedicated to Naomi Shemer with Shuly Natan, the Gevatron singers, and others.
For details check out the following URL (in Hebrew): http://users.tapuz.co.il/hebrew/other/Arad2004.jpg

UNDER ONE CANOPY

"Under One Canopy: Readings in Jewish Diversity" edited by Karen Primack is the subject of a Literary Reading Evening. UNDER ONE CANOPY also includes music lyrics which includes musical notes...

Sunday, February 29, 2004, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., a Literary Reading Evening will be held @ T'mol Shilshom bookstore Cafe (Kosher-Dairy) Restaurant, Rehov Yoel Solomon 5 (Near Zion Square), Nachlat Sheeva, Jerusalem, Tel. 02-623-2758 to celebrate publication of the new book (prose & poetry), "Under One Canopy: Readings in Jewish Diversity" edited by Karen Primack of "Kulanu". Out of 50 writers in this book, who participated in this 2002 Kulanu International Writing Competition, 10 writers live in Israel & will read! 1. Schulamith C. HaLevy 6. Hadassah W. Harr-Ell 2. Gloria Mound 7. Michael Freund 3. Yitzchak Kerem 8. Emma Kimor 4. Sue Tourkin-Komet 9. Gila Green 5. Loolwa Khazzoom 10. Ruth Fogelman

JMWC Top Jewish Music Accomplishment for 2003

Mazel Tov from The Jewish Music WebCenter: Congratulations Stephen!! This is probably the most significant accomplishment of 2003 on the Internet for Jewish music...

"Ladies and Gentlemen! -- It gives me the greatest of pleasure, after more than 7 years of travail, to announce that over 2,000 sheets of shul music have now been scanned and put on the www.shulmusic.org site."-- so starts the announcement of Stephen Simpson. Simpson's accomplishment is significant in the history of Jewish music online. http://www.shulmusic.org/
The shul music list (http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe.cgi/jewishshulmusic), will give updates as to when the next batches will be on-line. The uploaded files are:
Yamim Noraim basics, taken from 2 choirs: 18 MB
Sulzer in zipped file: 84 Mb
Lewandowski - all three volumes (Shabbat, Yom Tov and recitatives): 100 MB
Basic Shabbat choral material: 14 MB
Index of all known liturgical music composers: 2 Mb
The Blue Book in a zipped file: 44 MB
The Goldfarb (son and father) Yamim Noraim Songster from 1926: 4 Mb
The URL is: http://www.shulmusic.org/latest_updates.htm
Bio: Stephen Simpson grew up in north-west London where he heard the beauty of Jewish liturgical music through singing in his orthodox synagogue choir. After immigrating to Israel, he started a shul choir in Rehovot, Israel. Stephen felt keen disappointment by the decline of choral music in synagogues in Israel. This led him to the current digitization project. He plans to continue to make Jewish music from the early 1800s available to others through the web.